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Since early 2011, Obama's been waging proxy war on Syria. Imported death squads masquerade as freedom fighters. The scheme's familiar. It repeats. It reflects US imperialism's dark side. In the 1980s, CIA-recruited mujahideen fighters battled Afghanistan's Soviet occupiers. Ronald Reagan called them "the moral equivalent of our founding fathers." He characterized Contra killers the same way. —Stephen LendmanFor over a century now US ambassadors have acted as fifth columns in the nations they are embedded in, their role chiefly to foster corporate and plutocratic power and coordinate machinations against any truly pro-democratic government.•••••"The dead end identity politics of SF Pride, which sells out a peace hero like Bradley Manning to curry favor with the American ruling class, is what I had in mind. The empire loves your tameness, irrelevance and cowardice, SF Pride. You don’t bother the American ruling class — a five foot two, 105 pound soldier does because he has a conscience and because he didn’t make comfort the guiding principle of his life...." —Randy Shields

IRS Scandal Headlines: More Than Meets the Eye

 AMERICAN STUDIES, ANTI-CORPORATISM, ANTI-NEOLIBERALISM, ANTIWAR, CORPORATE CRIMES, CORPORATE MENTALITY, CORPORATE OWNED PARTIES, CULTURE & CRITICISM, EXTREME WEALTH, FALSE DEMOCRACY, GREAT HYPOCRISY  No Responses »
May 182013
 
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by Stephen Lendman

The rot is systemic, bipartisan. Both JFK and Nixon set up "enemies" lists to harass via the IRS and other agencies. They are not the only presidents to do so.

The rot is systemic, bipartisan. Both JFK and Nixon set up “enemies” lists to harass via the IRS and other agencies. They are not the only presidents to do so.

More than targeting political enemies is involved. More on than below. The practice is longstanding. Republican and Democrat administrations use the IRS abusively.  During the Coolidge administration, Republican Senator James Couzens investigated the IRS’ predecessor – the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR).  Continue reading »

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OpEds—War and Pain: Nothing New Under the Sun

 ANTI-CORPORATISM, ANTI-NEOLIBERALISM, ANTIWAR, ARTS & FILM, CULTURE & CRITICISM, HISTORY, IRAN, IRAQ, WAR CRIMES & CRIMINALS  2 Responses »
May 172013
 
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 By Gaither Stewart

An ancient war formation was nothing to laugh about. Imagine standing in a field with nothing but a sword, a spear and a shield against an advancing mass of men sworn to kill anyone in their path.

An ancient war formation was nothing to laugh about. Imagine standing in a field with nothing but a sword, a spear, and a shield against an advancing mass of men sworn to kill anyone in their path. 

The world goes round and round and human beings say and do the same things again and again. So that it seems there is truly nothing new under the sun. Man’s perplexing unchanging behavior and the ways of the world have again led me back to the ancient Greeks, just to take a look. And what do I find there? I find the same warmongers and pacifists of today, identical war parties and peace parties, arms industries and anti-war writers, the generals who predictably “just love war”, and, as one might expect, the same identical massacre of women and children as everyday in America’s wars, now conveniently called “collateral damages”. Continue reading »

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OpEds: The AP Seizures and the Frightening Web They’ve Uncovered

 AMERICAN STUDIES, BIG BROTHER, BOUGHT POLITICIANS & PHONIES, CONTROVERSY, CORPORATE MENTALITY, CORPORATE OWNED PARTIES, CULTURE & CRITICISM, SECRET GOVERNMENTS  No Responses »
May 162013
 
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AP’s Pruitt and AG Holder

What We Know is Bad; What’s Behind It is Worse!

by Alfredo Lopez, This Can’t Be Happening

“Paranoia,” said Woody Allen, “is knowing all the facts.” By that measure, we’re becoming more and more “paranoid” every day. Continue reading »

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The Real Gatsby

 AMERICAN STUDIES, ARCHIVES, ARTS & FILM, CAPITALISM & SOCIALISM, CULTURE & CRITICISM  1 Response »
May 162013
 
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The One-and-Owney

Great-Gatsby-Poster-014by DAVID ROSEN, Counterpunch

On Friday, May 10th, Warner Bros. released Baz Luhrmann’s The Great Gatsby.  It stars leading Hollywood talent, including Leonardo DiCaprio, Tobey Maguire, Joel Edgerton and Carey Mulligan.  During its 1st weekend release, it topped $50 million in box-office ticket sales; Iron May 3 pulled in $72.5 million over the 3 days. Continue reading »

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Spain’s Indignados Movement at the Crossroads

 ACTIVISTS & HEROES, BOUGHT POLITICIANS & PHONIES, CAPITALISM & SOCIALISM, CLASS STRUGGLE, CORPORATE OWNED PARTIES, CULTURE & CRITICISM, EU.Spain, TACTICS & STRATEGIES  No Responses »
May 162013
 
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Two Years Old, Time to Grow Up
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by TOM GILL

One of the great disappointments with – and indeed key weakness of – the indignados movement in Spain, which this May 15 celebrates its second birthday, has been its failure to pursue a strategy that turns power in the streets into the real power needed to change the world. Continue reading »

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In a world incompatible to life, mutilation amounts to prevention

 AMERICAN STUDIES, ANTI-CORPORATISM, ANTI-NEOLIBERALISM, CAPITALISM & SOCIALISM, CITIZEN TOOLS, CORPORATE CRIMES, CORPORATE OWNED PARTIES, CORPORATE TELEVISION, CULTURE & CRITICISM, ENVIRONMENTAL STRUGGLES, SAVING THE PLANET  1 Response »
May 152013
 
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Given Jolie's widely recognized beauty, the mutilation implicit in her double mastectomy shook the public with extra force.

Given Jolie’s widely recognized beauty, the self-mutilation implicit in her double mastectomy shook the public with extra force.

The world exploded with praise and awe when actress Angelina Jolie announced – via op-ed in The New York Times – that she had undergone double-mastectomy as a preventative measure after discovering that she possessed the mutant BRCA1 gene. A mutation to either the BRCA1 and/or BRCA2 (both named for BReast CAncer) genes seems to confer an increased risk of breast and ovarian cancer in its carriers. As the scourge of cancer has permeated the American landscape – one in two men and one in three women will develop cancer in their lifetimes – diagnosis and treatment have become the sole allowable precautionary procedures. Every day we learn more about the myriad of known and probable human carcinogens saturating our built environment. Continue reading »

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Ted Nugent’s Double Standards

 ABOMINATIONS, AMERICAN STUDIES, ANIMAL DEFENDERS, ANIMAL MARTYRDOM, ASSHOLES, BASTARDS & CRIMINALS, CULTURE & CRITICISM, INDECENT SLIMEBALLS, SAVING THE PLANET  1 Response »
May 152013
 
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Until Nugent came along, no one knew they could stack excrement 6 ft. high.

RRC Extra No. 36 / May 2013:

Nugent: Poster boy for all the depraved cowards of the world.

Nugent: Poster boy for all the depraved cowards of the world.

DO AS I SAY, NOT AS I DO… Ted Nugent spent the hours before his speech at the National Rifle Association’s recent national convention as just another vendor, hawking his books to the public. Then, as the confab’s final speaker, he gave his stock speech about his love of guns and his eagerness to kill people (“if you dare attempt to argue with me about my right to self-defense, I will just have to destroy you”). But the truth of the matter is that Ted’s never killed anyone and when he had a chance to, he bailed. Ted Nugent is just another chicken hawk. Continue reading »

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Eye on the Media: Shane Smith’s VICE is mix of old and new

 AMERICAN STUDIES, ANTI-CORPORATISM, ARTS & FILM, CAPITALISM & SOCIALISM, CORPORATE OWNED PARTIES, CORPORATE TELEVISION, CULTURE & CRITICISM, MEDIA CRITICISM, VIDEOS  No Responses »
May 152013
 
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Can Smith avoid the ideological barriers that come with associating with Big Media barons, and does it matter?


sSmithVICE56As the Guardian (UK) piece we reproduce below clearly explains, HBO has sprouted yet another promising series, this time under the aegis of Canadian producer Shane Smith, a man of idiosyncratic approaches to documentary filmmaking.  Smith’s signature is distinct, as the sample below can confirm, bold for mainstream producers, and it has already captured the attention of a prized demographic, the “younger market segments”, so he’s quickly becoming the toast of the industry.  Continue reading »

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Guest Essays: Indian Genocide and Republican Power

 AMERICAN STUDIES, BATTLE OF COMMUNICATIONS, BOUGHT POLITICIANS & PHONIES, CORPORATE CRIMES, CORPORATE OWNED PARTIES, CULTURE & CRITICISM, HISTORY, WAR CRIMES & CRIMINALS  No Responses »
May 142013
 
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From our archives: Indian Genocide and Republican Power, consortiumnews.com
Articles you should have read the first time around, but didn’t. 

By Thomas J. DiLorenzo
[Originally posted: October 7, 2010]

Sherman: For his age, he was a perfect fit of mainstream opinion.

Sherman:  Perhaps defiantly brutal, but he was not that far from mainstream opinion.

Consortium Editor’s Note: The genocide against Native Americans remains one of the most shameful chapters of U.S. history (and indeed one that continued through Ronald Reagan’s presidency with U.S.-backed slaughters in Central America).

However, from the Civil War through the end of the 19th Century, the extermination campaigns also merged the dangerous forces of a standing army with the business/political interests of the Republican Party, as the Independent Institute’s Thomas J. DiLorenzo writes in the following excerpted guest essay. Continue reading »

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L.A. Times’ Distorted Report on USAID

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May 122013
 
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By , FAIR

Bolivia’s president Evo Morales shown with clenched fist in a typically “provocative” pose (to Americans).

“USAID Develops a Bad Reputation Among Some Foreign Leaders,” read a May 7 Los Angeles Timesheadline, followed by the subhead:

The U.S. Agency for International Development doesn’t just offer aid to the poor, it also promotes democracy, which is seen as meddlesome or even subversive.

Fighting poverty and spreading democracy–what’s not to like? Continue reading »

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